The Dawn of the Roman Empire
Livy / Heckel, Waldemar (Professor of Ancient History, Professor of Ancient History, University of Calgary) / Yardley, J. C. (Professor of Classics, Professor of Classics, University of Ottawa)
Books 31 to 40 of Livy's history chart Rome's emergence as an imperial nation and the Romans tempestuous involvement with Greece, Macedonia and the near East in the opening decades of the second century BC, they are our most important source for Graeco-Roman relations in that century. Livy's dramatic narrative includes the Roman campaigns in Spain and against the Gallic tribes of Northern Italy, the flight of Hannibal from Carthage and his dea...